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East-bound Overland limited -Crashed
lUne tie Killed, One
(Special Dispatch V Tbs Joeraal.)
Cheyenne, Wyo., Dec. '7. The
worst wreck in the history, of
Wyoming v occurred, v at, 2:30
o'clock this morning when the
east-bound Union Pacific Over
land Limited, running more than
, a mile a vminute, crashed into, a
west-bound fast freight head-on
at Wilkins, Wyoming, four miles
east of Green River. Nine were
instantly killed, four of the vic
. tims were incinerated, one is
missing. Eight passengers and
10 employes were injured. Among
the deadi are the engineers and
firemen of both trains, the con
ductor and head brakeman of the
freight; four; postal clerks and
the entire dining. car" crew of the,
flyer. The track was torn up in
a terrible manner, cars of both
trains demolished and burned.
Number 2 ea'st-bovnd flyer was
late and was running at the rate
of 70, miles an ; hour, while the
freight was making 40 miles an
hour to reach the! next siding be
fore the flyerl , The cause of the
accident has notuJbeen. made
Jsnown, brit "evidently u the em
ployes .Overlooked their orders"
arid both were demolished'ln , the
dynamo and . dining cars of the
passenger were, smashed td kin
dling wood.. Several cars " of
freight were piled together in a
heap and the fire .which imme
diately broke out added its horror
to the scene, consuming all the
wrecked cars of both trains and
12 cars of the freight.' ... '
Assistance was at once sent for
from Green River and a train
load of doctors, nurses and vol
unteers went to the scene of the
disaster Where those who es
caped were busy attending the
wounded and crippled and rescu
ing the. victims from the flames,
which lighted up the scene with
a lurid glare. .
" This morning in . the burning
debris were found the charred
bodies of two mail clerks who
were burnt up and also two
MITCHELL OUT OF
ALL COMMITTEES
Oregon Senator Requests to Be
Relieved From. All Assign-
ments Thia Session . .
(Journal 8peclat SrrlrO
. Waahlnvton, D. C. Inc. 1. It la an
nounced . that Senator Mltchell'a ro
queat to Vlce-Prealdent Fairbanks to
be relieved from : eervtce aa chnirman
of the tnteroceanlo canala - committee
. goes farther, and aake that ho be re-
lleved from all committee, aaalrnmenta,
pendlnR flnnl action of the courta In bla
caee. If hla wlahea are compiled with-
! there' will be a aplrtted content for hla
pluce on the judiciary committee, thla
. being- one of the moat highly nought
' committee In the eenate,
Mitchell will be aucreqded on the In
teroceanlo canala committee by Millard
' of Nebraaka, who cornea next .In rank
on the committee to Senator Piatt, who
doe a not wlah the chairmanship. . Sen
ator Fulton undoubtedly will be given
the chalrmanahlp of the clalma commit
tee, but la more anxloua to land a place
on the commerce committee'' than thla
chairmanship, aa the place on the com
merce committee would enable him to
do. much for Oregon river and harbor
Improvementa. ' v . .. . '.
MARSHAL OYAMA IS
WELCOMED TO T0KI0
tJnenwl Pp-lnl Ur1r ) " '
Tnkfo. Dec. 7 KleId Murahal Oyaraa,
eommander-in-rbiaf of - the ' Japaneee
army, and ataff, entered .thla clt. this
. morning from hla. vlrtorloue campaign
rn Manchuria. A great crowd warmly
' welcomed him' deapH the Inclement
wmthcr. A central hIMty' hna been
; leriared. t )yama wag " driven directly
I to ttii palace.
J. Bugbee, first 000k f dining-.,
John Ltvltii, fourth oooft. Omaha.
2d Bossnbeum, iwoi4 ok. Oakland.
- stlgers. dynamo aa eleotrioian.
- Kelps to electrician, nam not known.
, Xdward Bzink, engine of tko freight
train. -
9. .; Smith, " head srakemaa . , of
freight train.
V. A. Peterson, maO etark, Cheyenne.
J. T. Phillips, mall stark, Cheyenne.
.V v' V. .v: atwsuio. v'
. J. A. vnmnu, mail clerk, Cheyenne.
' ' vaaaairosjui nroMD. ; ' ; .
Carlson, residence' nnknown
J. T. Hooker, Bait Xxe. , '
,'M. O. MoCoy, Kansas City.
Dannie MoArtbur, ". Anekland, Vow
a land. . 1 - '--- - :
. Mia Bdna Mlaklk, Ian Fraaotooo.
Mrs. Hand BUay, San rranolaoo. w V
at. T. Bullitt, Ban rranoiaoo. -;
kn. eortmdo Cook. Ban rranoiaoo. '
BBTPMTBS XBJTBBD.
Andrew jordon, janflnoor of paa-
sna '" - ' 4 ' ..
Alan William a, pmUman nortor. ' .
W. O. Borlqno, .third oook.
Oaoar Botoraon, flraman'of tnlfhi.
' O. A. Bhaffor mail olark, Choyoana.
B. A. Wkolorr dutliia;-ear eondaoter.
7. I. Bmltk, waiter. 's- - -j
X' WitehaU, waiter. -v- , K .-
W. 9. Barker, waiter. ,
. Bd Bart, waiter.-'. '.;v ,
- 9. Alfors, ftremam paaaenaer ...
corpses that were being trans
ported east for buriat i
l tprnfir sppprt at whirh tvth
trains were traveling left no time
for escape' by efther engine crew,
as an instant after the gleaming
headlights faced each.' other the
terrible shock occurred. :
The first car behind the tender
was the combination baggage
and ' electrical car, one end ; of
which contained 1 baggage ' and
the other the dynamos and other
appliances by which light for the
entire .tram-was furnished. V
The. electrician in .charge with
an 'assistant occupied the latter
end of the can . The impact of
the two engines was so great that
the huge steel tender of the,heavy
passenger engine cut through the
baggage car attached to it with
the speed of a bullet, crashing the
huge pile . of heavy trunks and
boxes into -the apartment occu
pied by the two electricians. '
Senator . J. H. , Millard, Who May
- Take Mitchell's Place on the In-
teroceanlc Canal t. Committee. .
KILLS HIMSELF BECAUSE
HE GOT A WHIPPING
' ("aeelal IMapatca The Jaaraal.)
Aberdeen. Wash.,' Dec, T,Aa th a T-
ult of a row. In which' he waa whlppedJ
Andrew C Thompson, II yeare old, mate
on the local steamer Harbor Belle,' com
mitted aufclde laat night about ! o'clock
by drinking carboTlo acid.'. He will prob
ably be burled by vrx Tbxmr, af which
lodge ha waa a member, ; .
' ' Ohannoey Wont Bealra. '
IJnenul Special Berrtee.f " t
New Tork. Dec T.-Senator Chauneey
M. Depew arrived In thla city 'this morn
ing. He said there was no trulti In the
report that he would resign from Ue
senate. " , - - - J .
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The force of the impact piled
the demolished baggage car into
the mail and express car' and
these into the dining car follow
ing, heaping the whole in" one in
extricable mass of tangled debris.
Twelve heavily loaded freight
cars piled up at the front of this
mass and in the space of a few
moments .amid "the hissing of es
caping steam bright tongues of
fire shot skyward swiftly fanned
by a cold wind that, swept down
from the snow covered 'foothills.
In half an hour after the collis
ion the entire mass of wreckage
was in flames and uninjured pas
sengers were hurriedly taking
wounded and dead from the
tangled pile of wood and steei.
' The trainmen, postal clerks and
dining car crew who were killed,
evidently died instantly. ;
J Shrieks". pf pain and cries for
help from the mjured soon ceased
as the rescuers "dragged them
from the danger of a death bjf
cremation and in an . hour after
the shock a special train bearing
doctors and nurses had. arrived
and ,thci;wj3Jrk. f caring for the
unfortunate was beerun. ' V
- 'The rescue train was followed
by a wrecking outfit and force of
workmen, out nttie couia De ac
complished until the flames had
burned themselves out, when the
work of removing the debsia-that
remained was begun. The work
of laying a" track around the
wreck was at ontfc started and all
trains will pass around the torn
up track until the latter can be
repaired within the next day or
two. ' ' '. v ';, ,
. Passengers in the sleeping, and
chair cars were thrown clear of
their bunks, and although badly
shaken up in numerous instances,
no one so far is thought to be
fatally injured in these cars.
The force of the crash with
whichthe two trains came to
gether can be better understood
when a survey is taken of the
scraps to which the huge dining
(Continued on Pare Tbrae.)
FUND FOR CANAL IS
CUT DOWN
Amendment to Hepburn Bill
' Reduces Arjpropriationtp-;i.
Eleven Million. ,
(Jearaal Special aVrrlee.)
Washington, D. C Dec. 7. The
Hepburn bill appropriating tK.400.000
for canal work waa debated at length In
the house today. : The bill waa amended
and placed on Ita final passage. ,
An amendment waa offered by Will
iams requiring an Itemlied statement
of expendlturea from the canal commls
mlslon and cutting down the appropria
tion to IMS8.S3I. Long debate ensued.
Prince moved to make It f 10.000,000.
Finally a com prom lie waa reached and
by a vote of 110 to 111 the house reduced
the amount called for In the canal bill
to 11.000,000.V Hepburn agreed, to ac
cept tlTB reduction. i
sTonhaneoai YrouiotedV
The-prceldent today nominated Cap
tain Charles 1L McKlnstry of the corps
of engineers to be a member of the
California debrla commission. ' Tbomaa
B. Neuhausen waa promoted from In
apector In the Oregon land office to a
special Inspector In the Interior depart
ment aa a reward for eenrlcea In the
Mitchell trial.
Tillman raised a rumpus In the oenate
thla. morning' by demanding action on
the campaign contribution resolution
which he offered yesterday, and de
clared that ha wanted "the debauching
of the electorate atopped. and dtd not
want money paid on hla policy to be
oaej to support the McCurdy family." -
The resolution waa agreeeT to without
opposition, after Tlllman'a war speech.
It , asks' the secretary of the treasury
whether the reports of the bank exam
Inera contain any reference to the na-
Contlnued on Page. Three.)
"What Are They
"Oh, He's Trying
rThat Crank Will
saaeagaaaaaaaaia
IS THE JOURNAL THE LEADER? JUST
READ THIS AND THEN ANSWER
Half of Veniremen Who Read Newspaper. Stories of Rets Murder
Cot Their First Information' From Thet Journal One ;
' , Read the Qregonian, Another May Have,
Of 11 veniremen, from whose number
It were chosen to serve aa a jury in the
Rels murder case at The Dalles, IT
were aaked .in what newspaper they
had read the report of the caae. One
had not read any newspaper. Of the
remaining It. eight had read the news
In The Journal, four In The . Dalles
Chronicle, two In the Dufur Dispatch,
one In the Spokesman-Review, one in
the Oregonlan and one thought he had
read It In the Oregonlan or Telegram,
but he wasn't aure, aa he took neither.
Henry Mayhew, Klngaley; C. 8. afa
gee, Dufur; 8. A. Klatner, Wamlc; L.
H. McCartney, J. W. Moo re a. Hood
River; W. It Sharp. The Dalles; Oscar
Angell. Hood River, and A. H. .Olllla.
Wamlc, read the newa In The Journal.
O. W, Otey said that - he might have
ten It In the Oregonlan. J. B. Haverly
might have read it In the Telegram or
Oregonlan, but did not take them. W.
11. H. Dufur of Dufur thought he had
read It In the Oregonlan. V
' Five of the IS men chosen to serve on
the Jury had read the first news of the
caae In The Journal.
Here la the ' official court atenoe
rapher's' record of the questions aaked
as to newspapers In the drawing of the
Rela Jury:
- Henry Mayhew, Klngsley Q. What
paper did you read the account InT A.
I believe It waa In The Oegon Journal. -
C 8. Magee, Dufur Q. Whit did you
read account tnf A. I read It In The
Oregon Journal. Q. Did you read it in
the Dufur DIspatchT A. It waa mostly
copied from The Journal. '
8. A. Klatner. Wamlc . Have yoa
ever read any statement of the facta In
thla caaeT A. Like the-rest of them,
I eaw It In the paper. Q. What paper
did you read It InT A. The Portland
Journal. Q. The Portland Journal
seems to be a popular paper out there?
A. We all take IC.gQ. Have you ever
read It In any other paperT A. No, sir.
Q. The Dalles Chronicle T - A. No. air.
Q. Dufur DIspatchT A. Nat sir.
LkL, McCartney, The Dalles Q. Have
you ever . read any statement . of ths
facta In this case? A. Tea. sir. Q.
Where did you read It T A. 'I think I
read It In The Journal and The Dalles
Chronicle, both. . Q. Do yow read The
Journal, toof A. Tea, sir.
- Oeorge W. Otey, Dufur Q. Have you
read any account of the facta In thla
caaef - A. Tea, air I believe It waa In
the Dufur -Dlapatch. -1- couldn't Bay
probably the Oregonlan.- I might havs
saw It In the Oregonlan, 1 couldn't
say for aure. -
J. Haverly, Dufur Q. Have you
read any account of what was said about
the facta In- the caeeT A, I remember
when the thing happened; I read It, 1
OUR ANTEDILUVIAN ANCESTORS
The Assessor In Antediluvian
Chaaing Stonehammer for?" -
to Get Up a Scheme' to Make Everybody Pay Taxea."
Get Lynched the First Thing He Knows." . - , ' '
,alisasewaaii,aaa.asaa
believe. In the .Chronicle. I might have
read it in .the Telegram or Oregonlan,
but do not take them. ' .
Oscar Angell. The Dalles Q. Have
you read any account in the papers, or
what were claimed to be the facta, in
this transaction along... about the time
It is said to have occurred T A. Tea,
air. J. What did you read it InT A. J
read It In The Journal.
A. H. Olllls, Wamlc Q. Have' you
read any account of what is claimed to
have been a atatement of the facta In
the caaef A. I think I read a piece in
The Oregon Journal. '
W. H. H. Dufur. Dufur q. Now about
the time of the transaction, do yon re
member rending any account of ' It In
the newapapera and what waa aald about
the facta In fhjf caae? A. Tea, I think
I read It In' the Oregonlan and I think
I read In the Chronicle and Dufur Dla
patch something of an account.- ' .
J. W. Moore, Hood River q. Have
you read what purported to be a atate
mentln the caaef A. I have read what
there waa In the Hood River Glacier and
The Journal. ,
W. H. Sharp, The Dalles q. Have
you ever read anything about the facta
In thla caaeT A. I read an account In
The Dalles Chronicle and The. Journal.
PACKERS' BLACKMAILERS
GO TO JAIL FOR MONTH
- ' 1 (Joernel oXl an-rlae.l
Chicago, Deo. I. William Mc8wain
and Wilbur - Cole, former employee,
pleaded guilty to the charge of black
mailing the Armour Packing company
and were sentenced . to 10 daya In Jail
each thla morning. The . men stole
papers from the packers which they
tried to sell back, threatening to give
the Information to the government,
MURDERER CAPTURED
- AFTER A LONG CHASE
(Joarmal CpfeUl gerrlre.t .
Butte, Mont. Dec T William Giles,
who stabbed Jatnea Rosa to death dur
ing a row oxer cards at Havre, waa rap
tured today after a stremlOuChM or
14 hours. In which a detachment of sol.
dlers, a poea of civilian and a number
of doga participated. . ,
BU-Vaf Baeere.' . :" ' '
(Jnornal Bpeclnl '
- New Torn, Dee. 1. Ten teams ar at 111
in the sis-day raoe with Bedsit brot!iT
In the lead.
Days , . ';v:0 V
i
Dili I IIIWCOTIPATi:
WILL llliLOIIUMIL
Transportation Committee of
Chamber of Commerce to"
--' Consider Question.
NORTHLAND ATTRACTIVE
- FIELD FOR MERCHANTS
Great Developments Under War In
Coal, Oil and Copper Districts and
Immense Influx of 1 People Next
Spring Assured.', "
. After having accomplished a vast
amount of work that la regarded aa of
the ' highest importance Yn - promoting
tranaportatlon matters in Oregon, the
transportation committee of the Port
land chamber of commerce haa taken up
the aubject of a ateamahlp line between
Portland and weatern Alaska. At a
meeting to be held tomorrow: afternoon
In the office of W. A. Wears' the ques
tion will be considered.
The coast country of Alaska, Including
Kyak, Valdea, Seward pentnaula and
Nome, presents an exceedingly attractive
field for Portland merchants, and la
rapidly growing In commercial Impor
tance. It la known that great develop
ments are now under way In the coal,
oil" and copper, dlatrlcta, and that there
will be an immense Influx of people to
that country neat aeaaon and the follow
ing year.' The singular aspect of the
largest and most Influential wholesale
market la the Pacific northweat being
without' direct ateamahlp connection
with Alaska haa attracted th attention
of the committee and aroused an inter
est that will. It la believed, lead to the
starting of a ateamahlp line, with the
cooperation of the Harrlman railroad
lines at thla port. -
. . ' . Alaska Ukes ForUaad.
' The conditions her favor luch a proj
ect - in, a . remarkably strong degree,
Alaakamerrhanta continually com here
to do business regardless of -the fact
that they have to paaa through Seattle
and Tacoma to reach thla city. Kvery
one of them haa declared -emphatically
that Portland la th largest and best
wholesale market on th coast. It Is
said - that Alaska merchants prefer to
trade with rortland. and would throw
the,, bulk. oOhelr .business to this mar
ket If there were direct meana of trans
portation, - Prom Htinrllallv-HAureea -It has
been learned that from t2S.ei. t4
$50,009,000 of eastern money la to he
Invested rent year in the development
of . raiiroml - and -mining proi-l alone
tlie wevtei A !! cot. The Poind-
ALASKA
Continued Co. Page ll
BRAND GAPOO
TRAITOR
Robespierres of the Revolution
ary ' ' Tribunal' . Pronounce)
Death Sentence Against
' Their Leader.
DRUNKEN4 EUTCHERY
ABB0AD AT KIEFh
More Than a Thousand Jews Re
ported to Hava Fallen Before the
, Onslaught of the Terrorists Mu
tinies Among Troops Continue
St Petersburg Cavalry Disaffected.
iv-.. -.-' '.:..'-:-:'-y---.- :
8t Petersburg, Deo. T. (Bulletin.)-.
An enormous alump In Russian fours haa
taken place, closing at 7i. Many of tho
ditya banks ar in a precarious condi
tion and a . grea financial crlala -14
Imminent, '-j , : .
' joaraal ipeeJal Bervlce.r
St. Peteraburg, iec 7. The revolu-.
tloniats have Information . that a reign
of terror exists at Kief f. Drunken mobs
are massacre In a; Jews, students and middle-class
reformera. Troops are making
no- effort to suppress the disorders. It
1 reported that 1.600 have been killed,
more than 1.000 of them Jews.
The mutiny, among the troops this '
morning reached 8L. Peteraburg when
three aquadrona of cavalry refused to
reply to the saluta-Q-f-tlielr commander.
The officers fled, fearing aaaaaaination.
Three battalions of infantry are reported
to have mutinied at Moscow, where th
strike baa become universal.
The mutinies at Kief f and Dorenes
have not yet been auppreased, although
many soldiers are reported slaughtered
at Kleff. . Outbreaks ar hourly occur
ring among th Polish regiments. Let-
tees from Manchuila say that the sol- "
dlers are practically starving, have pil
laged Harbin and the army Is seamed
with sedition.
.- In a, skirmish between Cossacks and
strikers here this, morning mors than .
100 were killed and wounded. t
Oapoa Proscribed. . .
The revolutionary committee has con
demned Father Qapon, who waa - th
leader of the popular demonstration oa
Bloody Sunday, 'to death on th grounds '
that he IS a traitor to the cause of th
people. Gapon la declared to be tn -fluenced
by the government. Gapon was
summoned to appear and anawer to th
charges,, but did Sot do so. The trial
was held before a tribunal of seven
specially selected and resulted In a
unanimous verdict for death of th
former priest Th verdict of death has
been approved by th central commit
tee. '
Th . cause of the revolutionists ac
tion against Gapon la due to the former
priest' preaching . among workmen
agalnat a revolution, saying that the
strike tactics are sure to Jeopardla th 1
freedom purchased , already by blood.
Qapon baa fled the country.
i akharoff Assassinated.,.
It la reported that Lieutenaat-Generat
Sakharoff. ex-minister of war, waa.aa
saaslnated Tuesdsy while at Saratoff at
th house of the governor, where he .
had gone to quell the agrarian riots. A
woman called at ths house and asked to
see Sakharoff. As soon as she was
ushered Into his presence ah Bred at
him three times with a revolver, kill
ing him on the spot. The woman la
said to have been the wife of one of
the pea mints killed by rder of Sakha
roff, who he waa pacifying hy harrow
lng cruelties and brutal whippings. .
SHO OTS IV1FE, KILLS HI LI S ELF,
WHILE CRAZED VIIHOiO
Woman's, Aged Mother Strug
gles Desperately WithFren
zied Man to Prevent Deed.
(j.mrnal flpeeUl Berries.)
-St Loula, tec. T. Crartd by drlnie,
Charles Be Bosae, a collector, shot his
wife and killed himself yesterday In
th presence of Mrs. rUtsubeth R.
Wubecke. his wife's aged mother,, dur
ing a quarrel about a 117.000 Inheri
tance. ' Mrs. Boaae's Injurlea sre be
lieved to be fatal.' the bullet passing
through her neck. Boase (lied Instantly,
Aged Mrs. Wubecke battled with the
frensled man to prevent him ahovtlng
hla wife, attempting . to wreet the
weapon from him when th shots wr
fired Boss was dead When the rhl
clans reached th houa a few minute
after the tragedy. ' -
While Mrs. lloeee has regained "
sclousness her condition Is pronouncrd
serious and physicians eirord" her re
moval to the City hopltl In an aml.n
lanoe. . '. . . ' .
VAUDEVILLE ACTC.l
FATALLY C'TC V.''"-
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